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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...parking" package and the Hyatt Regency's Spinnaker Lounge for some drinks (or anywhere else you want to drink) and snucker on down to the Hasty Pudding Club, where the company is making its summer home. This effect will not only increase the drama of the drama, it will add a humorous dimension to the production. Which finally brings us out of this digression: the only touch Angel Street needs to become a better thriller is a dab of comic relief...

Author: By David A. Demilo, | Title: Victorian Fun and Games | 8/1/1978 | See Source »

...raises the minimum age for involuntary retirement from 65 to 70, a move that some educators say might force colleges to lay off younger professors to keep their faculties and budgets balanced. Experts add that because the older, tenured professors usually receive higher salaries than their younger colleagues, schools may also have to freeze hiring...

Author: By John C. Breen, | Title: Professors' Poll Predicts Loss Of Tenured Posts | 7/28/1978 | See Source »

Unwittingly summarizing his own situation, Carlin talks about his teenage drug experience: "The trouble with drugs is that they are self-limiting. They open certain doors of perception which you already have--the drug doesn't add anything which isn't already there. Even with LSD and mescaline, you reach a point where it just doesn't do as much for you anymore...

Author: By David A. Demilo and Susan C. Faludi, S | Title: George Carlin's Coming of Age | 7/25/1978 | See Source »

...next. The whole show is tied together on a rather thin and poorly-planned pretext--most of the sparse dialogue consists of a synopsis of Porter's career, leading into the songs--but that format is merely for the purposes of decoration and filler. While it does not add to the quality of the show, it certainly does not detract...

Author: By Andrew Multer, | Title: Perfect Porter | 7/18/1978 | See Source »

Such findings are not unusual in research on homosexuals. Pro-homosexual spokesmen generally argue that gays are placed under heavy stress by an anti-homosexual society. The Kinsey researchers make this point but add a new wrinkle: the evaluation that gay males as a group are not as well adjusted as heterosexuals results from a minority of social misfits dragging down the average...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sexes: A New Kinsey Report | 7/17/1978 | See Source »

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